Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

It is a sin to be poor.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

It is rather a shame for a rich country like ours ... that it should allow those who have toiled all their days to end in penury and possible starvation.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.

Money can't buy poverty.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.